UNPROTECTED - Stage Projections
director - Nina Raine
set design - Miriam Buether
premiere - Liverpool Everyman Playhouse
revived - Traverse Theatre Edinburgh Festival
format – HD video
length - 01:24
Amnesty International announced that the play Unprotected has won their Freedom of Expression Award 2006. This controversial drama by Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse inspires debate about prostitution, violence against women and how we as a society respond to these issues.
The set is very simple on stage, a few tables and chairs. Scenes are located by the use of a stage-width screen (11 x 2.5m) at the back that runs continuously. Images are locations around Liverpool, rich and poor neighbourhoods, docks, industrial wasteland, water and cityscapes from above. The challenge was to create 2 hours of moving image that worked with the show rather then overpowering the performers.
"The Gray Circle provide video of a grand, gaudy, miserable Liverpool: a statuesque, black-and-white panorama which slowly closes in around the speakers; an alley flooded with red light; the park in which bits of the women's bodies were dumped.
-The Observer, Susannah Clapp, 26 March 2006
'I'm not asking you to judge me, coz I judge myself.`' Ali, street sex worker.
You can see more of Unprotected on the TGC - DVD Showcase 07
